We have a Customline and purchased ours without going to QLD. We rang Ian and he found us one of his customers that had just purchased one that lived 2 hours from us and arranged for us to have a look at theirs. After seeing it and setting it up and asking the owners a million questions we rang Ian and ordered ours that day!!!!

Did you get to see the Customline display at the Sydney show?

Try ringing the companies that you really like and ask if they can arrange for you to see one close to you, you can even come and have a look at ours if you want to (we are about 3.5hrs from Sydney) that is if you are wanting to buy new, otherwise put a watch out on ebay and maybe a few other sites for when a second hand one comes up.

Yes we do love our Customline SN, sorry tend to rave on a bit about how good it is.

I would definately look before buying second hand. Try putting wanted ads on Myswag.org, Campertrailers.org, Gumtree.com.au, 4x4 forums and of course here also put watches on ebay,ozation,rvpoint, trading post and any other sites that sell second hand CTs.

Have found though that CT's are tending to hold their value and are selling for not much less than they were bought for except for ones that are a bit older.

Good luck with your search it's not an easy decisions with sooooo many choices out there it tends to swamp you a bit. Keep us all updated with how it's all going.

Isn't it funny how the grass always looks greener on the other side.....when looking for vehicles I always think yours down Sth are cheaper than up here.....lol.....I actually SAVED $10,000 buying my Patrol from Melbourne...... Flew down,,,checked it out,,,,then drove it back on a permit which the seller paid for.My Bro-in-Law comes from Perth to Melbourne / Sydney buying late model caravans.....drives back to Perth and still nets around $10,000 profit.......

We actually sold our Navara Dual Cab to a guy in Coffs Harbour and we didn't lose any money on it even though it was only 12mths old when we sold it and was in new condition and still under warranty.

Your bro in-law is onto a good thing there, maybe there are not many manufacturers of caravans over in WA?????

We found that the CT market was pretty much the same over the two states, and as a LOT of the manufacturers were in QLD we compared prices with the ones made in NSW & ones made in QLD and there was not any difference in the new CT market and it only cost us $330 to have it delivered from QLD to NSW, we couldn't drive up there and back for that!!!!!

Funny!!! Maybe because QLD is still warm and people are looking year round or maybe with all the grey nomads up your way at present they may be looking to upgrade while they are up that way?????

My ct is second hand and I'm really happy with it. I kept looking and checking all the places that have been mentioned above.I would definitely look first then buy even when brand new. It's too much money to potentially be throwing away.Also, it is handy to have demos on how to best set things up etc and try it out for yourself. I think the older cts have heavier canvas than some of the new ones so you have to be able to put it up easily enough. And you really want to check out the canvas itself and the trailer's condition etc.